As promised, today’s episode is our next instalment digging down into the three main eschatological positions that we introduced last time. (You can listen to the overview episode here).
Calling Time on Pre-Millennial Dispensationalism
Today, our aim is to reject (and encourage you to also reject) the variant of pre-millennialism which is “dispensational”. (Historic pre-millennialism is quite different).
What does that mean? Why should it be chucked out? How popular is it across Western evangelicalism? Where is the devil at work? What are the implications?
We will rejoin this conversation next week by contrasting dispensational pre-millenialism with historic pre-millenialism.
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Did you hear Aimee’s STUNNING Good Friday testimony?
You can watch our full length conversation with her via YouTube here and her flagship testimony film here.
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How to pray for Ukraine (and other nations)? See a new video here.
This guest testimony episode today is very precious and very powerful: a former homosexual atheist radically saved by the sovereign hand of God, despite an unfaithful local church.
We’ll let Aimee do the talking but suffice to say there is nothing as encouraging as listening to a new believer describe the transforming work of our resurrected King Jesus.
When new believers enter the kingdom with a polemic for/against the chaos in the Church, we should all (especially church leaders) sit up, listen and think long and hard.
Homosexual Household Disrupted by the Gospel
In-depth Conversation (follow-up)
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As part of our commitment to the public reading of Scripture, last Friday I read the first 12 chapters of Luke’s gospel as we approach Easter Sunday.
To finish the gospel, Mairi and I will be reading chapters 13-24 on Good Friday (this coming Friday, April 15th) at 4pm GMT.
Whether you listen live or not, I hope these readings are an immense blessing.
Maranatha
Nick Franks
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Reading the book of Acts out loud is actually not as easy as you might think. Its author – Luke, the beloved Physician – is meticulous in recording curious detail, foreign names of people and places, and generally very comprehensive in narrative detail.
But this should be no wonder to us as we recall the opening words to Theophilis from his gospel account:
Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us, just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word have delivered them to us, it seemed good to me also, having followed all things closely for some time past, to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.
Luke 1:1-4 (ESV)
It is Luke’s following of things closely that should explain to us why his second book of Acts (of the Apostles) is comprehensive in both its content and style – it was inevitable.
It follows that Luke’s compassionate, tender-hearted desire is also that we should know certainty about what we have become persuaded of as absolute truth. In other words, comprehensiveness = certainty.
But this is more than merely form. The bed-side manner of any good doctor concerning physical and mental ailments finds its zenith at the points regarding matters of the human heart, the very wellspring of all things (Proverbs 4:23).
As we continue to commit our Friday evenings to a privileged devotion to the public reading of Scripture, we are reminded time and time again of the difference between engaging in the Bible in this way compared with silent, personal reading alone.
Parts 1 and 2 (chapters 1-13 and 14-28) are available to watch/hear below and you can find all other readings here.
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Mairi and I have just started a new podcast series on eschatology and will be doing our best to help us all to think more robustly (and honestly) about our various “positions”, even if that includes not having a clue what our position is.
Here’s the first intro session, below.
Eschatology Explained #1
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To prove that even what I say in this episode doesn’t go far enough, please read this.
Today we go through vv12-19 of chapter 15 of 1 Corinthians and ask ourselves, “What could it mean for us all to be redeeming radicalisation?”
Look out for a new book project of this same title later in 2022.
1 Corinthians 15:12-19
As we continue into this 51st episode of City of Temples – and the great crescendo of the book – you can listen to a full reading of 1 Corinthians here.
As this teaching series finishes in the next month or so, please look out for the 50+ sessions in study-guide/commentary form towards the summer of 2022.
There is also a playlist of other Bible readings forming here. If you’d like to be a reader, please let us know, and please consider sharing to your networks.
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